COUNCIL SET UP

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 87, 23 January 1942, Page 4

COUNCIL SET UP

TASK FOR REHABILITATION. II ! - t RECONSTITUTING industries. PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Prime Minister announced today the personnel of the Rehabilitation Council, which, under the Act passed last session, will make provision for the re-establishment in civil life of those who have served in his Majesty’s, armed forces, and also the reconstitution of war-time industries on a peacetime basis. Before constituting the council the Government invited nominations from associations representative of the discharged servicemen, and employers and employees in primary and secondary industries. The Act makes it clear, however,, that no person shall he appointed to the council as a direct representative of any particular organisation. Mr Semple has been appointed Minis ter of Rehabilitation, and is therefore the chairman of the council, and the following have been appointed by the Governor-General as members: Messrs Michael Moohan (who has been ap-

pointed deputy-chairman), Thomas R. Lees, E. L. Cullen, MIL (Hawke’s Bay), H. G. Dickie, M.P. (Patea), v Henry Tni Mitchell, Eruera Tihama Tirakatene, ALP., B. C. Ash-win (Soc- '■ retary to the Treasury), J. H. Royos (Public Service Commissioner), H. I). Aclnnd, William Marshall, Donald lan Macdonald, Richard Eddy, Adam Black, W. R. Clarke, W. E. Leadley, Clause H. Batten, Horace McCormick, and Mrs Sadi Macdonald and Mr S. W. Gaspar.